On 10/2/2017 4:42 AM, Joseph Hesse wrote:
Hi,
I am using the latest version 2.6.17 of gnucash. I just ran the
report "Expense Over Time = Expense Barchart" with the maximum number
of vertical bars selected. The report lists all my expense items
including one called "Other". Since the amount of "Other" is high, I
would like to get a breakdown of the expense items included under
"Other".
Is there a way to do this?
Thank you,
Joe Hesse
Yes of course there is, you set up your CoA for as many categories of
expenses as you like.
Step back a moment and think about this problem. Suppose you had NO sub
accounts under "expense" (all lumped together). You would then have this
problem with ALL of your expenses. So you decided to have some number of
sub accounts that let you characterize (group) like expenses and then a
bucket "other" for those you choose not to categorize/group because
totally unrelated and/or unimportant.
At some later time, you realize that a number of transactions in this
"other" account ARE related* and so you want them grouped also. Then DO
THAT. Create a new expense sub account for those and move them there <<
The technically correct procedure would be to create a "correcting
transaction" to do that but you will perhaps choose to edit the existing
transactions >>
When you create your books, you will be very unlikely to know all of the
accounts you will eventually need or want.
Michael D Novack
* Or maybe just one, but clearly so important/significant to your
finances that you want it clearly listed instead of buried in a
miscellaneous category.
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